Twelve sexy novels from the 1950s and early 1960s, out of print for decades and now collected in one MASSIVE volume.
Known for their lurid covers and daring themes, these vintage paperbacks pushed taboos around sex, same-sex desire, adultery, exploitation, and female autonomy. Mild by today’s standards, they were provocative in their time. Presented unedited and complete, the books included are:
Thirteen Men – Tiffany Thayer. The story of the twelve men on a New York jury, sitting in judgment of a murderer, the thirteenth man.
Splendors of Love – John B. Thompson. Ronald Summerville retreats to rural Mississippi to forget a war that broke him and a woman who betrayed him. Instead, he meets Ferris Macklin, sex personified.
The Pitchmen – Don James. Sex in the board room and the bedroom
Passionate Orphan – John B. Thompson. A raw, daring novel of sex, survival, and a woman who will not be owned—no matter the cost.
Creatures of Sin – Alfred Glasser. When nightclub singer Sheila Thomson is found dead among the river willows, ex-Marine–turned–private investigator Roscoe Todd becomes the police’s prime suspect.
Nymph in Need – John B. Thompson. A man rescues a woman and is plunged into a world of sex and violence.
The Sporting Parlor – Wanda Lane. A wife agrees to take a job in a brothel on Green Street because she thinks it will save her marriage. It doesn’t.
Hollywood Starlet – Don James. Kima Shannon hits Hollywood ready to play the dirty game to get what she wants. Men scout her like territory. Women see her as a threat.
Savage Eve – John B. Thompson & Jack Woodford . They came to the island burdened by rules they barely questioned. What they found there stripped those rules away.
Ask for Lois – John Barclay. Lois Cramer is a nightclub singer and call girl who wants into television fast, and will do whatever it takes.
Girl in the Middle – John B. Thompson. The more she drank, the more she needed sex. The more she had sex, the more she needed to drink.
$50-a-Night – Don James. In the swinging 1960s, Anne Freeman sells pleasure at fifty dollars a night, working the hotels and nightclubs of a pulsing West Coast city.
Alfred B. Glaser, Don James, John B. Thompson, John Barclay, Tiffany Thayer, Wanda Lane /
Anthologies, Crime Fiction, Lesbian Pulp Fiction, Romance, Sexy Fiction